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“One of life's minor satisfactions is forgetting.”

Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

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Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is a renowned American author born on June 16, 1938. Her works span various literary forms such as novels, poetry, and drama, known for her unique narrative techniques and profound thematic explorations. more

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“It's rare that we actively and consciously 'forget'; most of the time we have simply forgotten, with no consciousness of having forgotten. In individuals, the phenomenon is called 'denial'; in entire cultures and nations, it's usually called 'history.”

Culture Individual Nations Forget Consciousness History Forgotten Denial Phenomenon

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“After love a formal feeling comes.”

Feelings Formal

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“The only people who claim that money is not important are people who have enough money so that they are relieved of the ugly burden of thinking about it.”

People Thinking Important Enough Money Claims Burden Ugly Relieved

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“[Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness.”

Poet Solitude Supreme Emily Sociability

Book:Where I've Been, and where I'm Going: Essays, Reviews, and Prose

Source: Where I've Been, and where I'm Going: Essays, Reviews, and Prose

“the art of reading hardly differs from the art of writing, in that its most intense pleasures and pains must remains private, and cannot be communicated to others.”

Writing Art Pain Reading Pleasure Remains Intense Pain And Pleasure Art Of Writing

Book:The profane art: essays and reviews

Source: The profane art: essays and reviews

“Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the 'self' see the 'self' with any objectivity?”

Ideas Self Brain Criticism Good Ideas Surgery Objectivity Self Criticism Brain Surgery

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“while there are 'women writers' there are not, and have never been, 'men writers.' This is an empty category, a class without specimens; for the noun 'writer' - the very verb 'writing' - always implies masculinity.”

Men Writing Class Empty Sexism Categories Masculinity Verbs Nouns

Book:(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities

Source: (Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities

“Perhaps the inevitable tragedy of our complex civilization is that we must be specialists in our fields - and our fields have become increasingly difficult, so that communication is nearly impossible.”

Difficult Impossible Fields Communication Civilization Tragedy Complexes Inevitable Specialists Specialization

Book:Joyce Carol Oates: Conversations, 1970-2006

Source: Joyce Carol Oates: Conversations, 1970-2006

“Boxing is an American sport - a 'so-called sport' to many - in which images of incalculable beauty and violence, desperation and ingenuity, are routinely entwined; the sport that evokes the most extreme reactions - loathing, revulsion, righteous indigation; a fierce and often inexplicable loyalty.”

Sports Violence Extremes Loyalty Reactions Boxing Righteous Fierce Desperation Ingenuity Evoke Loathing Inexplicable Entwined Revulsion

Book:(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities

Source: (Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities

“There are boxers possessed of such remarkable intuition, such uncanny prescience, one would think they were somehow recalling their fights, not fighting them as we watch.”

Thinking Fighting Sports Watches Intuition Remarkable Possessed Boxers Uncanny

Book:On Boxing

Source: On Boxing